Payment processors are a blight
Actually yeah. Completely useless intermediaries just leeching other peoples money.
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GNU Taler, which is an anonymous (for the sender, not receiver) digital cash.
If the FSFE were to use a bank utilizing that system, the bank would not be able to request the sender’s information from them, as any person sending the donation is completely anonymous by design.
You can learn more about it over at !money@slrpnk.net
Cash.
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I understand the sentiment but payments are quite a bit more complex that people tend to realize. For most companies, handling payments directly without an intermediary is far too expensive, complex and risky.
Fuck MasterCard and VISA btw.
Source: I work for a PSP.
You know how sometimes a story seems so completely crazy, that you wonder what detail has been left out? Like… the payment provider just randomly wanted a list of all passwords? What?
Agree, there’s no way this is the whole story. Someone is hiding something. If that isn’t the FSFE then I’m guessing that the payment processor set the whole thing up as a flimsy reason for kicking them out with a “justified” cause. As to why, who knows.
I think that was an exaggeration. They likely “just” wanted their account names and PII. It was simply not clear, and they never clarified it, which is absurd. Probably because it is illegal to ask, but if they get data willingly, they are out of trouble?
Process the fucking payment, payment processor.
Isn’t this the kind of threat that payment processors made to Steam regarding some NSFW games? I believe it was an Australian “grassroot” campaign that led to the latest ban of many Steam (and Itch.io) games, and the threat was payment processors stop working with Steam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout#2025_Steam_and_Itch.io_game_removalsThis is the power they have now, imagine a cashless society…
something tells me its a surveillance group behind these demands, currently right wing governments along side things like palintir is wanting to feed its AI with the data they acquire from dissidents.
Thls ls why crypto was invented
You mean it’s not for bribes and money laundering?
Anti-corruption and anti-money laundering is way more effective when there’s no “blackspots”. Makes it so much better when you want to follow the money. As a very privacy concerned individual I, I assume that the reason for insisting on this data be given is to fight back on corruption and money laundering. At least this Is what the bank tells me when I challenge them on this. Maybe I’m just naive sitting here in comfortable Scandinavia
I still have a checkbook
